What is the name meaning of DERBYSHIRE. Phrases containing DERBYSHIRE
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English (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire)
English (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) : perhaps a variant of Pemberton.
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English (mainly East Midlands) : habitational name from any of various places. Melbourne in former East Yorkshire is recorded in Domesday Book as Middelburne, from Old English middel ‘middle’ + burna ‘stream’; the first element was later replaced by the cognate Old Norse meðal. Melbourne in Derbyshire has as its first element Old English mylen ‘mill’, and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire probably Old English melde ‘milds’, a type of plant.
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English (Derbyshire) : unexplained.German : perhaps a variant of Bredow.
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English (Devon) : habitational name from any of numerous places, for example in Derbyshire, Devon, Hampshire, Norfolk, Staffordshire, and Surrey, named in Old English as ‘mill ford’, from mylen ‘mill’ (see Mill) + ford ‘ford’.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolfhoghmhair ‘descendant of Maolgfhoghmhair’, a personal name meaning ‘chief of harvest’. The Gaelic name was first Anglicized as Mullover, which was later assimilated to Milford.
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English : habitational name from any of various minor places called Matley, in particular Matley in Greater Manchester, Matley Heath and Matley Wood in Hampshire, or Matley Moor in Derbyshire.
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English (Derbyshire) : unexplained; possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
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English (Derbyshire) : habitational name from a place in Derbyshire called Greterakes.
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English : habitational name from Mackley in Derbyshire, which may have been named in Old English as ‘Macca’s forest’, from an unattested personal name + lēah ‘woodland clearing’, ‘glade’.Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Donnshleibhe ‘son of Donnshleibhe’, a personal name literally meaning ‘brown hill’.Probably also an Americanized form of German Mä(g)gli (see Magley).
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English : possibly a topographic name from Middle English long ‘long’ + weye ‘way’, ‘road’, or a habitational name from some minor place so named; Longway Bank in Derbyshire, however, is named from Old English lang ‘long’ + hÅh ‘hill spur’.
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English (Derbyshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a fork in the road in woodland.
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English (chiefly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire) : from an Old English personal name, Merewine, Merefinn, or MÇ£rwynn (see Marvin).The first Murfins in North America were Nottinghamshire Quakers. Robert and Ann Murfin and their daughter Mary sailed from Hull, England, in 1678 on the ship Shield of Stockton and settled at Chesterfield, near Burlington, NJ.
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English (Derbyshire) : unexplained.
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English (Staffordshire and Derbyshire) : habitational name from Blurton in Staffordshire, so named with an Old English word blÅr, possibly ‘hill’, + Old English tÅ«n ‘settlement’.
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English : habitational name from places in Lancashire, West Yorkshire, and Derbyshire, earlier recorded as Melver, and named from ancient British words that are ancestors of Welsh moel ‘bare’ + bre ‘hill’.
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English (Derbyshire) : variant of Foulks.
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English : possibly a habitational name from a lost place in Derbyshire or South Yorkshire, where the name is now most frequent.
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English : unexplained. Possibly a variant of Marston, reflecting a local pronunciation, or a habitational name from Mastin Moor in Derbyshire.
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English (Derbyshire) : variant of Foulks.
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English (Derbyshire) : variant of Orton.
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English : habitational name from Matlock in Derbyshire, named in Old English as ‘meeting-place oak’, from mæthel ‘meeting’, ‘gathering’, ‘council’ + Äc ‘oak’.
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A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.
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An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
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A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.
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A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
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A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores.